- Forward launches $4B ATM program to grow Solana holdings and crypto treasury strategy.
- The company purchased 6.82M Solana tokens at $232 each and staked the holdings.
- Forward Industries raised $1.65B through a PIPE deal to begin its Solana treasury plan.
Forward Industries has launched a $4 billion at-the-market equity program to raise capital for its Solana treasury strategy, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company intends to sell shares gradually through Cantor Fitzgerald, using proceeds for general corporate needs and to expand its Solana holdings. This move positions the firm as one of the largest public companies directly structuring equity financing around digital assets. Could such large-scale balance-sheet plays reshape both market stability and regulatory oversight in corporate crypto treasuries?
Equity Financing and Solana Accumulation
Forward Industries has already taken major steps to execute its Solana strategy. The company closed a $1.65 billion private investment in public equity (PIPE) led by Galaxy Digital, Jump Crypto, and Multicoin Capital. The raised funds enabled the firm to purchase approximately 6.82 million SOL tokens at an average price of $232 each, totaling nearly $1.58 billion.
The company has staked all of its Solana holdings, turning them into income-yielding assets within the network. Forward’s use of at-the-market equity sales introduces flexibility. By selling shares over time instead of at once, it can pace its capital raising in line with market conditions.
This is a financing model contrary to conventional treasury strategies, in which companies usually depend on retained earnings or debt issuance. Forward’s model provides the equity of sales that are directly interconnected with the accumulation of digital assets. The company is successfully establishing an equity-to-crypto pipeline.
Market Liquidity and Stability
Large amounts of Solana being purchased by Forward could adversely affect liquidity. Billions being deployed across stages can lower float and cause widened spreads along secondary markets. Unlike Bitcoin, which does enjoy the benefit of deeper liquidity and generally strong institutional adoption, Solana’s trading depth is comparatively thinner.
If buy orders from Forward were significantly larger, then price movements would be amplified even more. Throughout these phased purchases by Forward, staking will further reduce the balance supply.
Stakeholding is a voting signal that one intends to get actively engaged within the Solana ecosystem. Contrary to passive treasury storage, this kind of behavior might impact market perceptions in terms of how corporate actors operate within blockchain networks.
Related: Forward Industries Secures $1.65B to Lead Institutional Solana Growth
Regulatory Treatment
Forward did the SEC filing under Rule 415 and Automatic Shelf Registration, Form S-3, whereby the company sold shares when necessary. Although this will guarantee the capital-raising regulatory transparency, the issue of digital asset accounting remains open. The accountability of Solana holdings as financial instruments or intangible assets will be carefully observed.
Other firms have also started Solana treasury strategies, though none have matched Forward’s scale. According to industry trackers, at least 17 companies report Solana reserves. Forward’s model stands out not only for its size but also for its integration of equity financing, staking, and open-market execution.
This combination of corporate finance and blockchain integration shows a new paradigm of managing treasuries. Investors are now forced to consider the revenues and cash flows as well as the embedded crypto positions in the corporate balance sheets.
